Improved harness-buckle



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F. W. DEAN, OF TREMONT, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 90,430, dated Ma/y 25, 1869.

IMPROVED HARNEss-''cKLE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same o all whom 'it may conce/rn Be it known that I, F. W. DEAN, of Tremont, in theY county of Tazewell, and State of Illinois, have invented a new' and improved Harness-Buckle; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a top View of my invention.

Figure 2 is a section of theV same through the line .fr x, iig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. i

The object of this invention is to provide animproved buekle for traces and other part-s of harness to which it may be applicable.

It consists of a metallic loop, having a hinged or pivoted tongue, located in a recess formed in the top plate of the-said metal loop, and which permits the entering trace to 'pass under it, but catches in the first hole that presents as the trace is retracted or drawn in the reverse direction.

In the drawing, the haines-trace, t0 Which the metallic loop is riveted, is lettered A.

The loop B is aiiixed to this trace by rivets a. a, or other suitable means. ."lhe upper plate of the loop B is swaged, cast, or

`Otherwise i'oITned with a recess, b, Within which a curved tongue, d, is pivoted, in such a position that its point will readily slip into the holes of the trace-strap O asthe latter is ,-drawn toward the said point.

When the trace-strap is pushed from the point of the tongue, as is the case when the said strap is-to be taken up or shortened, the point of the tongue slips over the holes Without catching, as shown by the red outline, but when retracted in, or drawnV back in the reverse direction. the point ofthe tongue will catchin the first hole c, which it encounters, andas the strap is further retracted, the tongue will be brought to assume a more vertical position by passing through the hole c, and catching in the slot e in the bottom plate of the loop, whereby a firm point of resistance to the draught-strain brought upon the tracestrap O is obtained.. Y

D D D are the ordinary leather loops, sewed to the haines-trace. p

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The harness-buckle, consisting of the metallic loop B, provided with the semicircular case b, formed centrally upon its side, to receive and enclose the curved p'ivoted tongue (l, Whose free end engages with the edge of the slot e, formed in the lower plate of the loop, all constructed as herein described for the purpose speci- 

